So I recently purchased a new server, with the aim to run Virtualizor and OpenVZ on it which happened to mean installing Centos instead of my usual Debian. The experience was definitely an interesting one, but here’s what happened: Add the dropbear repo: rpm -Uvh http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm Install dropbear: yum install dropbear I was initially baffled as how to configure Dropbear... Read Arcticle
I came across a rather intriguing issue the other day whilst working, the issue being detecting mod_rewrite using PHP. As I will explain later some of you may be thinking, why on earth would you want to do that? I assume that previous programmers wanted to only build SEO links within the backend if they could confirm that a suitable... Read Arcticle
Having decided to start posting a range of computer science related topics I thought it would be nice to explain how to setup fetchmail and procmail, which I personally use to, well, fetch my e-mails and then forward them on to my main e-mail account. I’m sure you know that having to login to multiple e-mail accounts is a huge... Read Arcticle
Today I decided I’d add a self-signed SSL certificate to my 128 MB VPS in preparation for some projects I’m hoping to setup. Below is a guide of how to create and add a self-signed SSL certificate to your Nginx web server. Start by creating a folder to store your SSL certficiates on the server: mkdir -p /etc/ssl/localcerts Now create... Read Arcticle